This debut collection by South Korean poet Yoo Heekyung chronicles contemporary life in a minor key where loneliness and existential ghosts thread the pieces. A student of Kim Hyesoon, Yoo writes poems that invite readers to reflect upon daily sorrows, while also illuminating single moments full of strange and arresting images — a hardened piece of bread, a train about to arrive, a crumpled piece of paper — that suggest the passage of time. Yoo’s title points to his fascination with language, and how each day offers chances to understand new vocabularies and new meanings — of words, of living.